Following the reveal of a few new Servants in Francis Drake, Astolfo, and Scathach for Fate/Extella Link, Marvelous shared a closer look with new screenshots and a little teaser for the next Servants.
Read Fate/Extella Link Gives Us A Closer Look At Francis Drake, Astolfo, And Scathach; Servant Teasers on Siliconera!
It was almost a year ago when Amazon first launched Anime Strike, a streaming service that was available for $4.99 per month on top of an existing Amazon Prime membership. The brief foray into an anime-focused Amazon channel has officially come to an end, though, and its curated catalog has been moved into Prime Video.
Word of Anime Strike's closure comes from Lauren Orsini's report over at the Forbes blog, which includes confirmation from an Amazon spokesperson. According to the source, both Anime Strike and the Bollywood-centric sister channel Heera have both shuffled their content into Prime. Here's what they had to say about it:
"We have decided to move the curated catalogs of Anime Strike and Heera into Prime Video so that more customers can enjoy this content as part of their Prime membership."
I just hopped over to Prime Video myself to confirm, and yep, shows like Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul no longer have a Strike banner, so you can go ahead and watch all these shows if you have a Prime account.
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Marvelous announced that the upcoming PS4 and PS Vita action game Fate/Extella Link will release in Japan on June 7, 2018. Also confirmed were Francis Drake, Astolfo, and Scathach for the roster.
Read Fate/Extella Link Adds Francis Drake, Astolfo, And Scathach; Launches June 7 In Japan on Siliconera!
Marvelous released a new TV spot for Fate/Extella Link, bringing with it the announcement of a June 7 Japanese launch on PlayStation 4 and PS Vita. You can also check out some of the newly-revealed playable Servants, including Fate/Extra's Francis Drake (CV: Urara Takano), Fate/Grand Order's Scáthach (CV: Mamiko Noto), and Fate/Apocrypha's Astolfo (CV: Rumi Ookubo).
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AlainmendezThe Type-Moon anime we can all watch.
As with last year and the Fate/Grand Order ‐First Order‐, this year, Fate/ celebrated new year's eve with anime. In this case it was a tie-in to Himuro no Tenchi Fate/school life, based on the comedy manga by Eiichirou Mashin from Ufotable and Moonlight/Lostroom with a Kinoko Nasu story from Fate/Grand Order: First Order's Hitoshi Nanba and Takuro Tsukada at Lay-Duce. The broadcast also introduced the anime adaptation of TAa's cooking comedy manga Emiya-san Chi no Kyou no Gohan (Today's Menu For EMIYA Family).
Distribution is planned for platforms including AbemaTV starting in February. Takahiro Miura and Tetsuto Satou direct the ufotable production with DJ Misoshiru & MC Goha on the opening and Sangatsu no Phantasia on the ending.
Cast:
Shiro Emiya: Noriaki Sugiyama
Saber: Ayako Kawasumi
Rin Tohsaka: Kana Ueda
Sakura Matou: Noriko Shimoya
Rider: Yu Asakawa
Ilya: Mai Kadowaki
Taiga Fujimura: Miki Ito
『衛宮さんちの今日のごはん』アニメ化決定！「Fate Project 大晦日TVスペシャル2017」内で第一話を放送いたしました。そして、2018年2月より最新話の配信がスタート！詳細は公式サイトをチェック！ https://t.co/EgNZu6Hzc5 #衛宮ごはん pic.twitter.com/tPyb3nAQ4Y
— 『衛宮さんちの今日のごはん』公式アカウント (@emiya_gohan) December 31, 2017
衛宮ごはん、アニメ化…！ pic.twitter.com/O6kTjaC0Da
— TAa (@tam_00xx) December 31, 2017
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AlainmendezI see Real-Time PvP and all I think is Ruh Roh Raggy.
Intelligent Systems recently sent out a feedback survey for Fire Emblem Heroes, asking about user satisfaction, and additional features and modes that players may want.
Read Fire Emblem Heroes Asks If Users Want Real-Time PvP, Town Building, And Co-Op Modes on Siliconera!
There’s still time to get Baking with Kafka for Christmas. In good bookshops and online here: https://goo.gl/6sypYT
To promote Shogakukan's newly-launched open competition for original web manga works, the 1st Sunday Webry New Face Award, 42-year-old manga artist Kenjiro Hata provided a two-minute fast forward drawing video of Nagi Sanzenin, the female protagonist of his Hayate the Combat Butler series. He serves as judge for the "theme" category of the award, and the theme for the first competition is "She is dead." The other category is "Free," in which you can make a story about anything. There is no page restriction for both categories.
Submissions will be accepted till January 15, 2018. You can send your work via this form. The Gold Prize winner will receive a prize money of 300,000 yen (about 2,650 yen) and his/her work will be immediately posted on Shogakukan's Sunday Webry website.
【サンデーうぇぶり新人賞 '１８／１／１５〆切！！】応募作、絶賛受付中！！＜フリー部門＞はWEBまんがにふさわしいエッジの効いた作品を、＜テーマ部門＞はテーマ「彼女が死んだ」に沿った作品を募集中！！ページ制限なし、EPUBデータをそのまま応募可能です！ https://t.co/KL3FyP1EFh pic.twitter.com/vs78pR94eM
— サンデーうぇぶり編集部 (@SundayWebry) 2017年12月26日
Source: "Sunday Webry New Face Award" official website
©Shogakukan Inc
It's hard to believe Chihayafuru has been around for ten years. In 2018, the manga series will be getting a film adaptation and several events surrounding that -- but soon, Kodansha's BE LOVE will be running a print tribute to the series, too.
Yuki Suetsugu's popular karuta manga will be receiving tribute art from a total of 33 popular artists, including Hirohiko Araki (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure), Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist), and Gosho Aoyama (Detective Conan).
The art is being kept under wraps until the new edition comes out, but Suetsugu has shared some anniversary art of her own:
BE LOVE's next issue, featuring the Chihayafuru anniversary spread, drops tomorrow.
>> Official Chihayafuru Website
>> Watch Chihayafuru on Crunchyroll
Source: Anime! Anime!
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Detective Conan fans can do themselves a favor and start the new year right at Detective Conan Plaza, Tokyo Sky Tree's spot for all things Case Closed. The venue will be serving themed food and drinks, offering new collectible merchandise, and hosting a mystery game with unique prizes.
Fans can stop off for a snack or drink based on all their favorite characters, like the Conan's Detective Item Crepe and the Apotoxin Dog. Each purchase of a cafe menu item will net you one of ten randomly selected postcards.
The shops will also be rolling out some new merch for 2018, including cute keychains and pinback buttons:
Spending at least 2,000 yen in the shop will net you one of ten coasters:
Of course, it wouldn't be Detective Conan without a mystery to solve! Pick up a sheet at the cafe or shop with your mystery on it, and solve it for a free limited-edition pinback button.
The event is on now, and will be running until January 31.
>> Official Detective Conan Plaza Twitter
>> Watch Case Closed on Crunchyroll
Source: Anime! Anime!
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The manga author known as Chica Umino (it's a pen name), spent her Christmas enjoying convenience store pork puns and coffee, taking a bath and catching up on reading (manga, magazines, interior designs books). With anime studio Shaft continuing their adaptation of her March Comes in like a Lion into the winter season, she capped the holiday off with sketches of the ladies of their MadoGatari series.
クリスマスっぽい絵を探していたらまどかちゃんが出てきたので
— 羽海野・アニメはNHKで土曜夜！ (@CHICAUMINO) December 25, 2017
メリークリスマス#まどマギ #まどか pic.twitter.com/4KAY4LaLdZ
クリスマスっぽい絵を探していたら八九寺さんが出て来たので
— 羽海野・アニメはNHKで土曜夜！ (@CHICAUMINO) December 25, 2017
メリークリスマスグリーンの透明な腕輪が可愛くてたまりません#八九寺真宵 #まよいちゃん pic.twitter.com/MIRGDU2Xnv
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Update: Sorry, I screwed up. The promo code will appear to work on any platform, but the checkout process will keep giving you an error message unless you use Google Pay.
To appease the whims of some high-level executive that just got a nice tax cut, the new Star Trek Discovery show is only available on CBS’s online streaming service, CBS All Access. That’s really annoying, but this deal makes it slightly more tolerable.
It's almost time to bid a fond farewell to another manga series. This time it's One-Punch Man creator ONE's Mob Psycho 100, which is officially coming to an end this week. ONE revealed as much today on Twitter, stating that the next chapter, which hits Shogakukan's Manga ONE app on Friday, will be the last.
Mob Psycho 100 originally launched in 2012, and has since hit over 100 chapters and 15 compiled volumes. BONES' TV anime adaptation—directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa (Death Parade) and written by Hiroshi Seko (Seraph of the End, Ajin)—debuted as part of summer 2016's anime season.
The manga has yet to make its way over to the west, but you can, and definitely should, watch the anime. Here's how Crunchyroll describes it:
Kageyama Shigeo, a.k.a. "Mob," is a boy who has trouble expressing himself, but who happens to be a powerful esper. Mob is determined to live a normal life and keeps his ESP suppressed, but when his emotions surge to a level of 100%, something terrible happens to him! As he's surrounded by false espers, evil spirits, and mysterious organizations, what will Mob think? What choices will he make? The anime based on the original story by ONE, the idol of the webcomic world and creator of One-Punch Man, is coming your way with animation by leading animation studio Bones!
Source: Cinema Today via Anime News Network
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Bandai Visual is scheduled to release an eight-disc Blu-ray box set of Sunrise's 1996 TV anime Kidou Shinseiki Gundam X/After War Gundam X in Japan on March 23, 2018, and it is confirmed that a newly drawn manga "Anata to, Issho nara" (If I am with you) supervised by the anime's original director Shinji Takamatsu will be also included as one of its bonus materials.
The story is set just after the TV anime's final 39th episode, telling the beginning of the protagonist Garrod Ran and the main heroine Tiffa Adill's new journey. The TV anime's series composition writer Hiroyuki Kawasaki provides the sequel story, and Kouichi Tokita, who worked on many comicalizations of the Gundam series, including the original Gundam X TV series, serves as illustrator.
The third non-UC Gundam TV series was aired for 39 episodes from April to December of 1996, following
Mobile Fighter G Gundam (1994-1995) and Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1996). It was originally planned a
full one-year run with around 50 episodes as with the previous two, but due to poor ratings and bad sales
of its plastic models, it was shortened to 39 episodes.
「ガンダムX」BD-BOXにガロードとティファの新たな旅を描く新作マンガ封入 https://t.co/OHp2OPsz1C pic.twitter.com/dSkrUJ8gNz
— コミックナタリー (@comic_natalie) 2017年12月19日
via: Comic Natalie
©SOTSU・SUNRISE
The National Art Center, Tokyo, the largest national museum in Japan, will hold a special event "Hirohiko Araki Jojo Exhibition: Ripples of The Adventure" in the summer of 2018. The exhibition will be held as the last project for the 30th anniversary of Hirohiko Araki's long-running fantasy action manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The manga started its serialization in 1987 and has printed over 100 million copies in Japan.
「荒木飛呂彦原画展 JOJO 冒険の波紋」2018年夏、国立新美術館にて開催決定ィィイイイ!! 30周年のラストを飾るのは、ジョジョ史上最大規模の原画展!! 詳細は続報をお待ちください！ 展覧会HP→ https://t.co/5wgQKmcLt0 pic.twitter.com/ziwvWo1ftG
— 荒木飛呂彦公式サイト「JOJO.com」 (@araki_jojo) 2017年12月15日
This the second time for the prestigious national art facility to hold a personal exhibition for a Japanese
manga artist since Osamu "God of Manga" Tezuka 28 years ago. In addition to Araki's original manga
works, various technologies will be used for the largest-scale displays in the history of the Jojo manga series.
Araki says, "It is a very great honor for me to show the compilation of Jojo's 30th anniversary to everyone
at the honorary place. At the same time, I am also feeling nervous. What I have tried to draw in the Jojo
series is 'Growth of the Spirits' through all the phenomena in this universe and the battles between the
good and evil. This exhibition will feature images of the characters and their guardian gods gathering
together at the same time and place. In addition, I am planning to offer some new drawings. Please look
forward to the next summer."
原画展の開催決定に寄せて、荒木先生から直筆コメントを頂きました！
— 荒木飛呂彦原画展 JOJO 冒険の波紋 (@JOJOex_2018) 2017年12月15日
今後の続報を楽しみにお待ち下さい！#JOJO #ジョジョ #荒木飛呂彦 #JOJO2018 pic.twitter.com/MFFSLjSfAT
"JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" manga tankobon 1st volume and its 8th arc "Jojolion" 16th volume
Source: "Hirohiko Araki Jojo Exhibition: Ripples of The Adventure" official website
© Hirohiko Araki&LUCKY LAND COMMUNICATIONS/Shueisha
© SHUEISHA Inc. All rights reserved.
You may be excited for the 20th anniversary return of Cardcaptor Sakura anime, but are you as excited as Tomoyo Daidouji? A new promo for the anime, set to premiere on NHK BS Premium on January 7th, begs the question.
Junko Iwao returns to voice Sakura's loyal partner, who will be in middle school in this adaptation of CLAMP's follow-up manga.
☆新PV放送決定☆明日19:25よりNHK Eテレにて放送のセレクション放送の予告パートにて、「クリアカード編」の新PVを放送します！今回は「知世編」☆お楽しみに♪ #ccsakura pic.twitter.com/mdWCaIjUAh
— カードキャプターさくら（公式） (@ccsakura_info) December 14, 2017
こんなこともあろうかと！
— NHKアニメ (@nhk_animeworld) December 15, 2017
「カードキャプターさくら クリアカード編」
最新PV「知世編」を公開しました！#ccsakurahttps://t.co/G8ytZFzLwc
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